Nodes and Meetings: ‘The New York’s New Museum: Future Imperfect’ by Mariano Del Rosario

If the new MoMA feels cold and square to some, the New Museum of Contemporary Art is cool and hip. Looming over the horizon of the once infamous and blighted Bowery strip amidst mixed-use lofts, quirky supply stores and SRO hotels (single occupancy only), the new New Museum of Contemporary art, New York, is an ethereal modernist box that exudes brilliance and panache. The seven storey tour de force is wrapped in metal mesh exoskeleton and is, by far, the newest kid on the block…

Special Interview: ‘An Interview with Karl Haendel (II)’ by Vagner M. Whitehead

I think there are other ways in which your work refers to performance. One is the obvious laborious quality of the work (again, the hand moving on the paper surface) that implies time and gesture and even movement, given the scale of your drawings. Another level of performance I saw present in your abstract Lyndon drawings, which consisted of your walking back and forth while holding a pencil…

Files: ‘Ruins in present day China: Stanley Wong’s Lanwei series’, Text by Jan Cornelius

Stanley Wong, also known by his artistic name Anothermountainman, was born in 1960 in the unique region that is Hong Kong. In 1980 he graduated in Graphic Design, and after working for five years in this field, he moved on to advertising where for the past 15 years, most of his professional work has been focused. However, Wong firmly believes that the frontiers between the commercial and the artistic…

Camera Lucida: ‘Morimoto Mie’ by Jorge Larrañaga

In photography there are directions and styles which are not limited solely to the theme, but which include the technique used, particularly when that influences the final colour. If in black and white photography it is principally the contrast which marks chromatic difference, in colour photography there is an exponential growth in chromatic possibilities. In spite of the infinite combinations…

Screens: ‘Mark Lewis and the cinema of daily life’ by Juan-Ramón Barbancho

Mark Lewis (1958, Hamilton, Canada) began his work as a photographer seeking, from among the wide range of possibilities offered by this art form, those images which would bring him closest to a study of nature and its connection with human life. From there, he turned to the moving image, a logical progression…

Books and publications: ‘Small Publishers: The Books of Perro Verlag’ by Eduardo Z. Sarmiento

Although it seems to go against the tide, almost unseemly in the times we live in –undoubtedly characterised by an increasing trend towards digitalisation– there are still small publishing houses producing literally handmade books of artists’ work. These are usually small books which in many cases do not exceed 24 pages…